Tuesday, 13 September 2016

Inhibitory Study for Joint Reactions of Hydrodesulfurization and Hydrodenitrogenation during Hydrotreating of Vacuum Gas Oil

HDS of petroleum fractions is one of the most important processes in the petroleum industry to produce clean fuels. In particular, sulfur removal in diesel fuels is now strongly desirable for environmental and technical reasons. For instance, HDS is used to prevent atmospheric pollution by sulfur oxides produced during the combustion of petroleum-based fuels, to prevent poisoning of sulfur-sensitive metal catalysts used in subsequent reforming reactions and in the catalytic converter for exhaust emission treatment.

Hydrotreating of Vacuum Gas Oil
Finally, to avoid corrosion problems in engines. The basic nature of these compounds causes them to adsorb onto Lewis acid sites on the catalyst surface, inhibiting the availability of the sites. This poisoning may be reversible or irreversible, depending on the HDS conditions.


 High concentrations of organic nitrogen compounds can cause significant deactivation for reforming, cracking, hydro treating, or any other type of hydro processing catalysts. The present work aims to study the inhibition effect of nitrogen compounds for HDS of DBT in VGO at using carbazole and acridine as non basic and basic compounds respectively over and prepared catalyst (PtMo/alumina) by finding inhibition factor and adsorption constant for each compound in a trickle bed reactor.

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